High School
16-year-old Delia and
her family move into the house they just inherited in Pennsylvania, the Piven
Institute for the Care and Correction of Troubled Females, but the locals call it
Hysteria Hall. However, many of the inmates weren’t insane, just defiant and
strong willed…kind of like Delia herself.
But the house still wants to keep “troubled” girls
locked away. So, in the most horrifying way, Delia gets trapped.
Ghost girls wander
the halls in their old-fashion nightgowns. A handsome ghost boy named Theo
roams the grounds. Delia finds that all the spirits are unsettled and full of
dark secrets. The house itself harbors shocking truths within its walls –
truths that only Delia can uncover, and they may set her free.
Three
words: Abandoned. Insane. Asylum. If those words have gotten your attention,
continue reading. If not, go on to another book.
The
thing that really confused me was that her father thought it was okay to stay
in the insane asylum while they were cleaning it up to sell. Yeah cause that’s
a good idea. It’s not like in those old movies where the teens dare each other
to spend a night in ‘the abandoned insane
asylum on the outskirts of town’. The father knowingly took his wife and his children to a mental hospital. How
stupid is that!
Most
of the females at the Institute didn’t belong there. They weren’t sick, just
strong willed. But that’s what people did to women and the truly insane back
then. As it is quoted in the book, “The word hysteria originated from the Greek hystera, meaning ‘womb’. Female hysteria was a blanket diagnosis
applied to women for everything from schizophrenia to having too many
opinions.” I think this is well put.
I
can’t image being stuck in one place forever. I know I said that if I had to
I’d want to spend it in a movie theater. But I would eventually get lonely. If
you’re going to be stuck somewhere for the rest of your afterlife, the one
thing you need is a friend. I mention this because the ghost girls are trapped
in the house while the ghost boy Theo is trapped outside. For a hundred years,
he had no one to talk. Until Delia showed up.
This
book is what I imagine the TV show American
Horror Story is like. I’ve never watch that show so I can’t say for sure.
Well, this is my last October post. I hope you enjoyed it.
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